Chapter 912

Old Mrs. Dong closed her eyes. What a piece of trash; Lu Qiao was right to scold her.

She said: "Yuanyuan, apologize to Lu Qiao!"

Dong Yuanyuan didn't want to, but she had been struck by Lu Qiao too many times and no longer had the heart to be unconvinced.

She really lowered her head and apologized: "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have framed your cat. It's my fault, it has nothing to do with it."

Lu Qiao curled the corners of her mouth, then sighed, pointed at Dong Mingming, and said: "Dong Yuanyuan, your sister is lying here, and you bear a great responsibility. Things have reached this point, and you are equally to blame. If it weren't for you, none of this should have happened. I don't want to tell you to reflect on yourself, but shouldn't you say something to your sister now?"

And so, Dong Mingming saw that Dong Yuanyuan, who had always been high and mighty, overbearing, and always bullying her—a mountain that seemed impossible to cross—had lowered her head and apologized to her.

And she was crying while apologizing.

You have to know that every time there was a conflict with her sister, she was the one who cried and admitted her mistakes.

"... Mingming, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have argued with you, and I shouldn't have said such nasty things. I regret it, really. Get well soon, I promise I won't bully you or argue with you ever again..."

Dong Mingming cried.

It wasn't because she was touched, but because she suddenly understood many things. How to describe it? It was as if... in just this short moment, she had figured everything out.

No one lectured her with grand principles, and no one persuaded or guided her.

But when she met Sister Lu's gentle and encouraging gaze, she seemed to suddenly become enlightened, as if she had been reborn in an instant.

That's right, her feeling now was that she had lived through it all over again.

Tears were still dripping down.

Lu Qiao was still wiping her tears with a handkerchief.

Lu Qiao didn't speak, just looked at her with gentle eyes.

After Dong Mingming's negative emotions decreased at this time, and having experienced such a serious incident, it could be said that she had circled around the gates of death and come back.

People who have experienced life and death will surely have insights, even if she is just a teenager.

The people in the ward heard Dong Mingming say: "I don't want to call you sister anymore, because I've discovered that you aren't worthy of being my sister."

Except for Qin Hengzhi, who was standing quietly, and Lu Qiao, who was accompanying Dong Mingming.

Those few Dong family members all looked at Dong Mingming with some disbelief.

If the previous identification made everyone look at Dong Mingming with new eyes, this Dong Mingming now gave both Dong Ze and Old Mrs. Dong a sense of strangeness.

Dong Mingming clenched her hands, feeling that the words she had kept in her heart all along didn't seem so hard to say after all.

She felt that she really had too much to say.

Dong Mingming said: "Everyone in the family is biased toward you and takes your side, all feeling that as long as I exist, you are the one being wronged.

I myself also feel that my existence is superfluous.

The vase broke, and before knowing who knocked it over, you and Grandma scolded me like crazy. Grandma even hit me, and then I thought, I shouldn't have been born, I should disappear from this world.

But before I jumped, I discovered that the clothes I was wearing were yours, and the socks were yours too.

These were all things you didn't like and didn't want. When you gave them to me at the time, you threw them on the floor.

I remember every time you said: 'So annoying, I'd rather throw them in the trash than give them to you, it's really a bargain for you.'

So, I don't want to leave this world carrying your things.

Dong Yuanyuan, I really hate you to the extreme. In this life, I will never call you sister again.

If I owe you anything, then me lying here can be considered compensation to you. Let's not be sisters in this life!"

Old Mrs. Dong covered her heart; hearing this was truly too painful, and she wished she could faint the next moment.

It was all her fault, all of it was her fault.

If her mind had been clearer and she had been fairer in her actions, if she had treated both children equally, how could these two sisters have ended up in this state?

And Dong Ze's face was pale as he watched his two daughters seemingly turn into enemies. As a father, his heart was truly full of self-reproach and pain.

For the two children to reach this point today, not one of them as adults was innocent.

He wanted to persuade them, but he couldn't say a single word because he didn't have the face to do so.

Dong Yuanyuan also didn't expect that her younger sister, who had always been honest and cowardly, would actually say so much to her.

In her eyes was shock and disbelief.

Never be sisters again in this life?

It seemed this was what she had been hoping for ever since Mingming was born.

But after these words came out of Dong Mingming's mouth, why didn't she feel any happiness?

Lu Qiao spoke up at the right time from the side: "Silly child, even if you owed Dong Yuanyuan something, it wouldn't be your turn to owe her, because you couldn't choose which family you were born into, and you couldn't choose who your relatives would be, so you don't owe anyone!"

These were just ordinary words, but for some reason, after Lu Qiao said them, it felt as if the Dong family's hearts had been struck by a heavy hammer, making them unable to breathe.

Lian Liying felt shame, guilt, and self-reproach for the first time, but her mind was in a mess, and she didn't know how she should deal with everything in front of her.

What to do now?

What to do in the future?

What to do with this family?

If it were usual, she might have vented her anger on Dong Mingming again.

But at this moment, Lian Liying didn't dare to think that way at all, and this wasn't just a conflict between two sisters; now there was also the twenty thousand yuan compensation.

What should she do?

Lian Liying's eyes darted, and she covered her face and began to cry.

It could only be like this for now.

Old Mrs. Dong wiped away her tears. Although she was very upset, her little granddaughter spoke clearly and logically, proving that her brain hadn't been damaged, so she was relieved.

Although she wasn't the head of the household, she bore too much responsibility for this matter.

She didn't want to make things difficult for her son, so she spoke first: "Little Lu, today it was my fault. I was too arbitrary; I didn't investigate or ask carefully, and I believed Yuanyuan's one-sided story.

This is my fault, and this matter must be resolved properly.

My meaning is to go to the military department now. There should be someone on duty. I will take Yuanyuan with me to explain this matter clearly.

But I don't know if you should come along.

However, I must return that money to you.

This matter cannot be delayed; we will resolve it tonight."

Then she looked at the weeping Dong Yuanyuan, her expression exceptionally stern: "Your behavior is too despicable. You should be taught a lesson. Dong Ze, what do you think?"

What could Dong Ze say?

He was truly too disappointed in Dong Yuanyuan.

She wasn't a child anymore; many young women her age had already started families and careers.

But he didn't dare to interfere too much in her marriage matters.

Because he didn't want to have a huge falling out with Yuanyuan's mother and be laughed at by people in the compound.

But the fact was: he had now become the biggest joke in the compound!